[ajug-members] Can anyone recommend a book for learningRubyon Rails?

[Gunnar Hillert]

Hi,

The core idea of Struts 2 is really nice - Plain POJOs that serve as 
actions (Great for testing - by default no dependency on the request). 
Your action's instance variables are immediately available in your JSPs 
(In a sense similar to Rails). It is certainly a step-up from Struts 
1.x. and I think it is nicer to work with than Spring MVC < v2.5 as well.

That being said - While it is very easy to get started you will hit 
quite a few annoyances with Struts 2, most of them are minor but the 
biggest one right now is that the present version of Struts is over a 
year old and the current Dojo integration is awful and has been 
substantially refactored in 2.1 - but I am waiting for the final 2.1 
release for months now...

Have you looked at Spring MVC 2.5? It improved quite a bit since the 2.0 
days (Fully supports annotation-based configuration now), plus you have 
Spring Webflow readily available in case you need to handle 
conversational state.

Right now I am a bit on the fence between both frameworks - maybe they 
should just merge... Anyway - regarding RoR...'Agile Web Development 
with Rails' is a great book (First and second edition). RoR certainly 
has some nice features...

Cheers,

Gunnar

mike stittleburg wrote:
> Struts 2 == Webwork 2
>  
> That said it's an improvement over Struts 1.x but still tedious. The 
> pure java side (actions) are pretty straightforward. The greatest 
> annoyance I find is with developing the views (jsp,tags,...). All the 
> binding is still done with string attributes which is quite error 
> prone. The tag libraries seem rather lame compared to something like 
> JSF or ASP.NET :).
>  
> I'm not convinced that the RnR view model is any less tedious and you 
> are still mixing code and markup in the same file.
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>     *From:* Thomas, Dave [mailto:dthomas at tandbergtv.com]
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:04 PM
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>     *Subject:* Re: [ajug-members] Can anyone recommend a book for
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>     Looked at Struts 2, but at the time didn't look ready for prime
>     time.  It's completely different, so a rewrite in Struts 2 would
>     be the same as a rewrite in something with more sex appeal like
>     Seam+Facelets.  Or Ruby on Rails.
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>     What version of Struts are you on?
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>     Struts 2 is far less tedious than Struts 1.x from what I've read.
>     Have you looked into that? Might be easier to migrate.
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>     Struts is tedious. Can anyone recommend a book for learning Ruby
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